Their world doesn't need gods.

Chapter 279: End of Volume 5: The Shadow Over the Gods

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— Adelaide —

Adelaide sat in an open-air cafe on the shopping street, supporting his cheek with his hands with sorrow.

Her puppet, the direwolf Fenri, was curled up at her feet lazily and taking a nap, without any sense of tension at all.

During this period, the school was closed, and there were many people taking a break and strolling in the shopping street. The area around the open-air cafe was naturally noisy.

But Adelaide didn't care at all and was only thinking about his sister Cheryl.

(What on earth was that idiot sister thinking? Why did she still want to live in Alfred’s dorm even though her injuries had healed?

Also, has she been getting too close to that guy recently? It feels like the atmosphere between them has become inexplicably ambiguous...)

Edward bit the small metal spoon of coffee and kept complaining in his heart.

Now Cheryl calls Alfred directly by the super intimate name "Al", just like Rose and Liliana.

And whenever Cheryl mentioned Alfred to Adelaide, she would either blush or complain to her about Alfred's affairs with other women...

A girl who is deeply in love and cannot extricate herself.

Edward really couldn't figure out what kind of magic potion Alfred had given to his stupid sister.

It was obvious that Sheryl hated him so much before.

Even if it is paying for something, isn't it paying for it too quickly?

And they live together...

Edward felt upset when he thought of his favorite sister in his previous life and Alfred cuddling in bed, kissing each other passionately.

She had the urge to punch Alfred hard.

"How about we just call that guy out and give him a punch?"

"Hey~ Adelaide, you called us out today, is there something going on?"

Luna and Sylvia walked side by side to where Adelaide was sitting.

These two people left Illya and Arya after the attack on the Annu cult, saying that there was something extremely important that needed to be dealt with.

Even if Edward wanted to look for them, he couldn't find them.

Something seemed to have happened in the college these days. A major earthquake occurred inexplicably two days ago.

It seemed that Luna and Sylvia were called back by Christina because of this incident.

Not knowing when these two would run away again, Edward planned to take this opportunity to ask Luna and Sylvia everything he wanted to know.

"Can you please tell me about Fenri? Why was Fenri able to control the equipment that Alfred lent me on the night of the Annu Cult's attack? Also, why do you two know Fenri?"

Luna and Sylvia looked at each other, and Sylvia shrugged helplessly.

"Anyway, Al hasn't noticed this, and he hasn't issued any gag orders to us. Even if we tell this girl about it now, it won't be a big deal, right?

And according to this silly girl's personality, if we don't explain things clearly, she will definitely investigate something on her own. Then she might stir up some trouble, which will be difficult for us to deal with."

There is no doubt that the stupid girl Sylvia was referring to must be Adelaide.

Although being called a stupid girl made her angry, Adelaide inexplicably missed Sylvia's tone of voice.

There is definitely someone who is extremely close to Adelaide and often calls her that.

But Edward tried hard to trace his memory, but could not recall anything.

"But...even if she knew those things, well, I know."

Luna hesitated for a long time, but finally accepted Sylvia's proposal.

"This story may be very long, let's sit down and talk slowly."

Sylvia said to Adelaide.

She pulled out a chair and sat opposite Adelaide, while Luna sat between them.

"Luna often called me the wrong name at the beginning, so I think you should have noticed this. The two of us are not puppets, but succubi and half-succubi who are loyal to a certain demon king."

Sylvia used barrier magic to isolate herself from the outside world.

At the same time, she stretched out her slender fingers and gently stroked the empty top of her head.

A pair of beautiful dark blue devil horns slowly emerged from Sylvia's beautiful light pink hair.

At the same time as the sharp horns appeared, a pair of small and cute bat wings and a tail that looked like a thin whip with a heart-shaped end grew out of thin air behind Sylvia.

Adelaide swallowed nervously and listened silently as Sylvia continued.

"And the demon king we served in the past was Al's previous life."

"Then why do you know Fenri, and why is she so close to you?"

Sylvia's words "devil king" made Edward feel inexplicably anxious.

She was anxious to confirm something, but what exactly she wanted to confirm, Adelaide herself didn't know.

"The world we used to live in was controlled by a bad-tempered goddess and her two brothers, just like this one. They played with us who lived on earth like flags.

Their favorite way to play is to divide all people in the world into 'humans' and 'demons' who are unwilling to believe in them."

Sylvia explained.

She glanced at Luna, who continued what she was saying.

"Although we are called the descendants of pure-blooded succubi, our ancestors were actually all human. The three pillars of the gods were a joke, turning our ancestors into various monsters, the so-called 'demons'.

In order to keep the demons who are unwilling to obey them tortured, and at the same time collect the souls of the dead from the humans who believe in them. The three pillars often imitate the world you were born in in your previous life, which is called "video games", right? In short, it is a game of brave demon kings in that kind of thing, and select the demon king. "

As Luna spoke, she lowered her eyes and clenched her fists.

Although the three gods had already been eliminated by Alfred and the others with the help of Noah.

But the companions who sacrificed in the past, because those gods unfortunately passed away, will never come back.

Sylvia put her hands on Luna's shoulders and patted her twice to comfort her.

Sylvia continued speaking after Luna's words.

"When Al became a demon king in his previous life, he wanted to completely free that world from the control of the three pillars of gods. Although he usually seems carefree, he actually has quite a few secrets.

For example, he has been reincarnated many times and has had quite ambiguous relationships with many goddesses in the divine world. That guy knew a lot of information that we didn't know at the beginning.

With the knowledge from the previous life and Alta's own charm, the Demon King's army recruited many powerful cadres at that time. In addition to the demons, there were also humans like me who were oppressed because of their mixed blood.

Facing the human army that is a patchwork and infighting army, we are unstoppable."

"At first, the three gods were still playing games and didn't intend to interfere with the world on earth easily. But they also didn't want us to win from humans.

So, that group of psychopaths pulled seven people from another world, gave them powers close to those of apostles, and let humans worship those seven boys and girls as heroes.

Among those seven boys and girls from another world, there was a damn girl named Ai Li."

Sylvia looked at Edward, her eyes full of melancholy and helplessness.

"That is, your previous life, Adelaide."

"Eh?!"

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—Noah—

In the deepest part of the realm of the Oss clan in the divine world, there is a special facility called Tartarus.

In human terms, this is hell or should we say the underworld?

However, for the gods, this is a power plant that provides the gods with energy for various activities.

The gods sent apostles (angels or demons) to collect the souls of dead humans and other creatures from various colonies and send them to Tartarus to use them as fuel for generating magic power.

There are a large number of special magic barriers and magical equipment in Tartarus, which will consume the souls of these humans bit by bit and provide their masters with a constant supply of magic power.

As for whether humans will feel pain in this process, the gods actually don't care.

After all, they were not the ones who were locked up, and those humans were already dead.

In the deepest part of this facility where the gods rarely set foot, two girls appeared.

"Noah, why do we have to make this trip in person? Why not just send two apostles to investigate? If Javier finds out, we will be scolded by Sister Anastasia.

Javier is a petty guy who loves to tell tales! "

One of the girls, the goddess Eluya, complained to Noa beside her in dissatisfaction.

"There are some things I want to confirm in person. I don't trust those errand boys to do it."

Noa replied, continuing to move towards the deepest part of Altaros.

The so-called apostles may be the spokespersons of the gods in the eyes of humans. But in fact, the goddesses basically only treat those licking dogs as errand boys. Sometimes, they are even treated worse than licking dogs.

Alfred is an anomaly.

Even after so many reincarnations, he still retained his memories from before reincarnation, but there had never been any problems with his soul or personality.

If it were anyone else, the physical brain and the soul itself would be damaged.

The best example is Sheryl.

After two extremely unfortunate lives, her personality has developed many problems, such as becoming more impulsive and irritable than ordinary people, and having a stronger mental dependence on others.

Trying to destroy the empire for the Lindbergh family, treating Rose as his survival goal in the past to avoid mental breakdown, and now clinging to Alfred like a cat, these are the best manifestations.

Now that she has Alfred, Rose, and her sister Adelaide from her previous life by her side, Cheryl will most likely not have any problems.

Personality problems and mental trauma can usually be recovered from slowly.

But if it wasn't like this, what would happen to Cheryl a few more times...

No, maybe just one time and she would completely collapse?

Alfred, on the other hand, has experienced hundreds of such reincarnations, some of which were as unfortunate as Cheryl's.

This is just within the scope of what Noah knows!

But now, he seems like nothing happened...

In the past, Noah only regarded Alfred as a special human being.

After all, humans are a species that is always unique, different, and weird.

In order to save the Austian gods whose future is worrying, he is a very good research subject for Noya.